Experience Houston at night via time-lapse magic

Houston videographer Spenser Harrison has put together a look at downtown Houston at night in an enthralling time-lapse video that’s making the rounds on social media. Titled “Houston By Night,” the video is a shortened version of a longer clip he’s still working on.

Harrison, 27, graduated from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State and splits time between Houston and Los Angeles for video work at his own production company.

“I just put together clips from time-lapses I have taken around Houston over the past year or so,” Harrison says. “I actually have a lot more from the daytime but I decided to do just nighttime stuff this time around.”

The night shots, though, seem to be what clinch it for most people. Boy, Houston, we have a lot of cars, seen here as lasers on the roads.

You can spy the Hyatt Regency, the bars off Main Street at Alabama, bustling traffic on Allen Parkway, a Houston Texans game, an unclogged Highway 59, and the ferris wheel at the Downtown Aquarium in Harrison’s video.

Do time-lapse videos require patience, having to stay in one place for a bit?

“You definitely need some patience. I actually started bringing a book and reading while the camera rolls,” Harrison says.

For all the great spots that Harrison was able to capture, he still has plenty of other locations he’d like to shoot from. The observation deck in the JP Morgan Chase Tower, inside the Galleria, a view from the top of Hotel Zaza, and spots on Post Oak are on his wish list.

“There are so many great spots around Houston,” Harrison says. “I’d really like to do this right, but I haven’t had the time yet. With all the great responses I’m getting, I think I’ll have to.”